Monday, August 22, 2011

Monday!

It may not seem like it, but there is a fair amount of red in this landscape....and...as Eric Jacobsen says: "Red is the great modifier".

Painting: Celeste Bergin, Evening light, oil on 8x10 canvas panel
Posted by Celeste Bergin at 7:50 PM
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13 comments:

Virginia Floyd said...

Lovely. I can see those reds. They are very warm and luminous.

I agree that landscapes need red. Paintings that are all greens and blues look flat to me.

August 22, 2011 at 8:57 PM
-Don said...

Beautifully done. I'd never heard Mr. Jacobsen's quote (which is a good one), but I believe every landscape needs lots of red in it. I've never painted a blue sky or a green meadow without including some red.

-Don

August 22, 2011 at 11:54 PM
Jenny Schouten Short said...

Beautiful landscape and the red is soothing. xo Jenny

August 23, 2011 at 1:06 AM
AutumnLeaves said...

Oh my! This is just gorgeous, Celeste! My first thought was Paradise Lost, then of course, the Garden of Eden!

August 23, 2011 at 2:33 AM
Libby Fife said...

You really can see it once you start looking for it. This one is really lovely, like a cool evening.

August 23, 2011 at 3:19 AM
Colleen said...

Looks calm and beautiful! I'll remember that quote next time I paint a landscape!:)

August 23, 2011 at 4:20 AM
hw (hallie) farber said...

This is just beautiful. For some reason the word romantic comes to mind.

August 23, 2011 at 7:05 AM
Dave Starr said...

I see the red, now that you point it out. I thoroughly dislike landscapes that are too green, Jacobsen's advice seems sound

August 23, 2011 at 7:54 AM
Linda Popple said...

So serene and just beautiful!

August 23, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Caio Fern said...

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.................................!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
love it.
red and blue can be the salvation or the total hell on a painting. you balance very well ;)

August 23, 2011 at 8:38 AM
Jan Yates, SCA said...

this is so lush and painterly-my favourite combination-especially in landscape-beautiful light and atmosphere as well

August 23, 2011 at 9:12 AM
Mary Paquet said...

Beautiful piece, Celeste. This is very reminiscent of work done by the Hudson Valley landscape artists. Well done.

August 23, 2011 at 9:59 AM
Carrie H. said...

I know the reds are floating around in there but what a paradox; The painting is predominately cool!

August 23, 2011 at 7:51 PM

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